Guillaume Jacques (, b. 1979) is a French

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who specializes in the study of Sino-Tibetan languages:

Old Chinese Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 12 ...

, Tangut,

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...

, Gyalrongic and

Kiranti The Kirati people, also spelled as Kirant or Kiranti, are a Sino-Tibetan ethnic group. They are peoples of the Himalayas, mostly the Eastern Himalaya extending eastward from Nepal to North East India (predominantly in the Indian state of Sikkim ...

languages. He also performs research on the Algonquian and

Siouan Siouan or Siouan–Catawban is a language family of North America that is located primarily in the Great Plains, Ohio and Mississippi valleys and southeastern North America with a few other languages in the east. Name Authors who call the ent ...

language families, and publishes about languages of other families such as Breton. His case studies in historical phonology are set in the framework of panchronic phonology, aiming to formulate generalizations about sound change that are independent of any particular language or language group. Jacques is one of the main contributors to the

Pangloss Collection The Pangloss Collection is a digital library whose objective is to store and facilitate access to audio recordings in endangered languages of the world. Developed by the LACITO centre of CNRS in Paris, the collection provides free online access ...

, an open archive of endangered-language data. Guillaume Jacques was awarded the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2015.

Biography

Guillaume Jacques studied linguistics at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

and Paris Diderot University. He obtained his doctorate in 2004 with a dissertation on the phonology and morphology of the Japhug language (one of the

Gyalrongic languages The Gyalrongic languages (also known as Rgyalrongic or Jiarongic) constitute a branch of the Qiangic languages of Sino-Tibetan, although some propose that it may be part of a larger Rung languages group, and do not consider it to be particularly ...

), which was based on fieldwork carried out in

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of t ...

, China in 2002–2003. He taught at

Paris Descartes University Paris Descartes University (french: Université Paris 5 René Descartes, links=no), also known as Paris V, was a French public university located in Paris. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 ...

for four years before taking up a permanent research position at the Centre de recherches linguistiques sur l'Asie orientale (CRLAO).

Editorial activities

Guillaume Jacques is one of the Editors of the linguistics journal ''

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale ''Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal of East Asian linguistics that was established in 1978 and is published by Brill. The articles published before 2007 are in free access on the Persée website. It pub ...

''. He is a member of the

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of ''Diachronica'', ''Linguistics Vanguard'', and '' Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area''.

Works

* 2000. "The character ywij and the reconstruction of the Zhi and Wei rhymes"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 29.2: 205–222. * 2003. "Jiarongyu, Zangyu ji Shanggu Hanyu de -s houzhui" (嘉绒语、藏语及上古汉语的-s后缀)

he –s suffix in Rgyalrong, Archaic Chinese and Tibetan He or HE may refer to: Language * He (pronoun), an English pronoun * He (kana), the romanization of the Japanese kana へ * He (letter), the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets * He (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic script called ''He'' in ...

''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2003.1: 12–15. * 2003. "Un cas de dissimilation labiale en chinois archaïque : la racine 'couvrir, renverser' et son équivalent en tibétain"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 32.1: 123–130. * 2004. "Chabaohua de chongdie xingshi" (茶堡话的重叠形式) eduplication in Japhug ''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2004.4: 7–11. * 2007. ''Textes tangoutes I, Nouveau recueil sur l'amour parental et la piété filiale''. München: Lincom Europa. * 2007. "A shared suppletive pattern in the pronominal systems of Chang Naga and Southern Chang"; ''Cahiers de Linguistique: Asie Orientale'' 36.1:61–78. * 2008. ''Jiarongyu Yanjiu'' (嘉绒语研究) study on the rGyalrong language Beijing: Minzu chubanshe. * 2008. ''Xixiayu de mingcixing weiyu'' (西夏语的名词性谓语)

n nominal predicates in Tangut N, or n, is the fourteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''en'' (pronounced ), plural ''ens''. History ...

''Minzu Yuwen'' (民族语文) 2008.4: 37–39. * 2009. "The origin of vowel alternations in the Tangut verb", ''Language and Linguistics'' 10.1: 17–27. * 2010. "The inverse in Japhug Rgyalrong"; ''Language & Linguistics'' 11.1:127–157. * 2010. "Notes complémentaires sur les verbes à alternance ‘dr/'br en tibétain”, ''Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines'', no. 19, Octobre 2010, pp. 27–29. * 2011. “A Panchronic Study of Aspirated Fricatives, with New Evidence from Pumi.” ''Lingua'' 121 (9): 1518–38. * 2012. “Argument Demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong.” In ''Ergativity, Valency and Voice'', 199–225. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. * 2013. “Harmonization and Disharmonization of Affix Ordering and Basic Word Order.” ''Linguistic Typology'' 17.2: 187–217. * 2013. “Applicative and Tropative Derivations in Japhug Rgyalrong.” ''Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area'' 36.2: 1-13. * 2014. “Denominal Affixes as Sources of Antipassive Markers in Japhug Rgyalrong.” ''Lingua'' 138: 1–22. * 2015. "On the cluster *sr–in Sino-Tibetan", ''Journal of Chinese Linguistics'' 43.1: 215–223. * 2019.
Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan
. by Sagart, Laurent and Jacques, Guillaume and Lai, Yunfan and Ryder, Robin and Thouzeau, Valentin and Greenhill, Simon J. and List, Johann-Mattis. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'' 21. 10317-10322. * 2021. ''A grammar of Japhug''. Berlin: Language Science Press. (digital), (hardcover).

References

External links

Jacques’ page
on Academia.edu
Jacques' research blog
"Panchronica"
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